An Israeli firm introduces a new strain of weed called Avidekel, which offers the substance's health benefits — without the special side effect...

Although it appears that the Obama administration is cracking down on medical marijuana, a number of the drug's health benefits have become increasingly indisputable. One Israeli company hopes that it can create a middle ground: Tikun Olam has successfully created a strain of weed called Avidekel that provides many of the helpful medicinal effects of cannabis minus one notable differentiator — it doesn't get you high. "Whyyyyyyyyy?" asks Victoria Kekiepmis at the Village Voice . Here, a brief guide to the weed world's version of O'Douls...

Here's the deal: There are different active compounds in cannabis, THC and CBD being the main ones I think. High THC will cause you to get 'higher', and actually strains with a low CBD count in conjunction can cause some bad paranoia and such. A lot of caregivers in medicinal states try to have some strains with high CBD and lower THC for patients who would like the therapeutic effects without being all highed up.

No worries. Legalization is the new push. So they can do whatever with medical marijuana. It's all about recreational use being legal now. Give it 30 years and it will be legal nation wide. 5-10 years for nationwide medical marijuana. 10-15 years recreational use legal in over two dozen states.

lol Did hemp get a break in those 2 States or was that just the smoking kind.

Wouldn't a THC patch be a better way to 'do it' rather than via smoke and if you are going to smoke get a gas mask so the smoke stays with just you.

Quoting: MHz

there is actually heaps of research with thc sprays and patches.britain was doing lots back in the late nineties.

thc was found less than as effective as placebo for chronic pain , and most other ailments studied

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27893232

I seem to recall that brownies laced with it made having to turn the record over as more or less optional as long as the sound was still at high. Give them some of that stuff and see what happens, for any nation headed for the toilet this isn't going to speed things up or slow them down but the poorest wont be ramping up to demand equality if they can have a bud in the morning. No doubt the M. brand would be a mandatory intake.

Bad for people that use it medicinally FOR the high part. Many conditions that people need it for require the high part of it, that's what gets rid of their pain and other horribly discomforting conditions such as IBS and anxiety.

There has been weed that doesn't get you high since the beginning of time. They cross it with stronger strains for autoflowering pot. Autoflowering increases yield times with not having to change light cycle to 12/12.